Artists who work in three dimensions often use objects as their sketching tools, and for Rothschild it was straws. She stuck the straws together and using a model of the interior of the Nasher Sculpture Center, wove the straws throughout the lobby, down the staircase, around the bottom level and back up the stairs to the gallery.

A year and a half later, she returned to the Nasher, in Dallas, with more than 90 feet of 4-inch aluminum pipe covered in colorful strips of fiberglass tape. She installed her weaving, winding, climbing pipe snake in the Nasher's lobby, and it fits to perfection as it vaults over desks, turns corners and plummets down the stairs. It crawls back up to the lobby and piles up against the window wall as if it wants to go outside and play in the garden.

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